Joseph William Black : Curriculum Vitae
Joseph William Black, Jr
Address
PO Box 24686 Karen 00502 Nairobi, Kenya
+254 (0)723 094936
wblack@spu.ac.ke
Nationality:USA
Date of Birth:30 April 1959
Family: Married to Dr. Stephanie Black, 31 July 1982; two daughters, Linnea (1988) and Caroline (1990)
Qualifications
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2000
Faculty of History, Fitzwilliam College
Supervisor: Professor Eamon Duffy
M. Div. summa cum laude, Christian History and Theological Studies, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary , South Hamilton, Massachusetts, 1989
B.A. magna cum laude, Medieval and Renaissance Intellectual History,Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1981
Experience
2012 - Present
Senior Lecturer in Theology and History, St. Paul’s University, Limuru, Kenya
2011-2012
Adjunct Lecturer in Historical and Theological Studies, St. Paul’s University, Limuru, Kenya
2008-2010
Lecturer in Historical and Theological Studies, Africa International University, Karen, Nairobi, Kenya
2008
Visiting Lecturer in the History of Medieval Christianity, South Asian Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS), Bangalore, India
2001-2008
Lecturer in History and Historical Theology, Evangelical Theological College (2001-2003) and the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2001-2008)
1997
Administrator, Cambridge Summer School of Theology, Cambridge, UK
1996-2000
PhD studies, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Previous employment history available upon request
Publications
Authority: A History of How Christians Have Justified What They Believe and Do – in process.
‘Offended Christians, Anti-Mission Churches and Colonial Politics: One Man’s Story of the Messy Birth of the Orthodox Church in Kenya’, submitted for publication.
‘Richard & Margaret: Difficult man + difficult woman = model marriage,’ Christian History & Biography (Issue 89, 2006), 35-37.
Reformation Pastors: Richard Baxter and the Ideal of the Reformed Pastor (Carlisle, UK: Paternoster Press, 2004).
‘Thomas Doolittle,’ ‘Thomas Wadsworth,’ ‘Christopher Cartwright,’ ‘Edward Polhill,’ ‘John Hinckley,’ ‘Richard Moore,’ ‘Andrew Parsons,’ in Brian Harrison and Colin Matthews (eds.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, in Association with the British Academy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
‘From Martin Bucer to Richard Baxter: “Discipline” and Reformation in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England,’ Church History 70:4 (2001), 644-673.
‘Richard Baxter’s Bucerian “Reformation”, ’Westminster Theological Journal, 63 (2001), 327-349.
References
Professor Eamon Duffy
Magdalene College
Cambridge CB3 OA6
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 314 837
Professor James Nkansah-Obrempong
Academic Dean
Africa International University
PO Box 24686 Karen 00502
Nairobi, Kenya
+254 (0)734 419086
Professor John Morrill
Selwyn College
Cambridge CB3 9DQ
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 335846
Additional references available upon request.